Live surgical castration of piglets is routinely carried out on European farms. It is a means of preventing undesirable boar taint in pork meat. However, the practice is now being...
Within the framework of the Maya Plan, a study was conducted by CRA-W and CARI (Centre Apicole de Recherche et d’Information) at Walloon apiaries to investigate two potential factors...
For a long time considered to be fungi because of morphological similarities, Phytophthora nevertheless have a very different biology with an as yet relatively unknown diversity, particularly...
Increasing the milk equol content by feeding silage rich in red clover significantly improves milk quality.
Renaturation of cross-border ripisylvae with woody ecotypes is now possible following the –availability of valuable multiclonal alder and willow collections.
The diversity of plant protein supply sources available to our farms necessitates faster, cheaper tools to prevent contamination and detect fraud.
On the initiative of CRA-W, the 19thTriennial Conference of the European Association for Research on Potato was held in Brussels from 6 to 11 July 2014, and was a successful international...
In the framework of the ASSET 2014 conference on food integrity and traceability, CRA-W gave talks and presented posters about its expertise in vibrational spectroscopy for monitoring...
A recent survey in the framework of the Duralait Plus project found that work organisation is a key concern for farmers who, like all self-employed people, aspire to similar working...
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